Abdolreza Heydari

Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who has been barred from leaving the country, arrives at a village on the Iran-Turkey border to supervise a film based on a real-life couple seeking passports to Europe being shot in Turkey, but both his stay and the production run into trouble.

Elaheh, a literature student, lost her father three years ago during the protests against Ali Khamenei's regime. Now she is piecing her life back together, working illegally as a masseuse in a private flat. Whispers of Elaheh's magical hands spread through Tehran. Men with ties to the government book appointments, some enticed by the prospect of a "happy ending". Elaheh never wears a hijab and speaks openly about her hair, but takes only the risks she can measure. She dreams of escaping suffocating Tehran and stealing a kiss from her boyfriend, Soheil, in the heart of Berlin.

Elaheh, a literature student, lost her father three years ago during the protests against Ali Khamenei's regime. Now she is piecing her life back together, working illegally as a masseuse in a private flat. Whispers of Elaheh's magical hands spread through Tehran. Men with ties to the government book appointments, some enticed by the prospect of a "happy ending". Elaheh never wears a hijab and speaks openly about her hair, but takes only the risks she can measure. She dreams of escaping suffocating Tehran and stealing a kiss from her boyfriend, Soheil, in the heart of Berlin.

Elaheh, a literature student, lost her father three years ago during the protests against Ali Khamenei's regime. Now she is piecing her life back together, working illegally as a masseuse in a private flat. Whispers of Elaheh's magical hands spread through Tehran. Men with ties to the government book appointments, some enticed by the prospect of a "happy ending". Elaheh never wears a hijab and speaks openly about her hair, but takes only the risks she can measure. She dreams of escaping suffocating Tehran and stealing a kiss from her boyfriend, Soheil, in the heart of Berlin.